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With a plane sitting upside-down on the tarmac at the Toronto airport, Anne Robinson remained pragmatic about the slim chance she could end up in a similar crash. “Deep down, it does (scare me), but it’s not going to stop me,” Robinson said Tuesday after her flight out of Toronto Pearson International Airport was cancelled […]

TORONTO — Investigators examining the wreckage of a Delta Air Lines flight at Toronto Pearson Airport said Tuesday they’ve recovered the plane’s black box, as authorities praised the “textbook” emergency response to the fiery crash landing. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is leading the probe of the crash that injured 21 people on […]

TORONTO — A teen girl accused of stabbing a homeless Toronto man did not have a knife at any point that night, her lawyers told an Ontario court Tuesday as they argued the girl wasn’t the one to inflict the fatal wound. Defence lawyers for the girl began making their closing submissions after her co-accused […]

OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland’s Liberal leadership campaign is insisting that fundraising numbers released Tuesday don’t give an accurate picture of her haul during the first part of the race. Campaign data released by Elections Canada for the campaign period ending Feb. 9 shows Freeland raised just over $226,661, putting her behind presumed front-runner Mark Carney […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index rose Tuesday, helped by strength in the energy sector as the prices for oil and natural gas climbed, while U.S. stock markets eked out gains. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 165.61 points at 25,648.84 after a holiday Monday on both sides of the border. In New York, the […]

Police say a 22-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and arson after a person was found dead at the site of a restaurant fire north of Toronto. York Regional Police say they were called to a restaurant in King Township at around 3 a.m. Sunday for reports of a fire. They say the […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s snap election campaign is heading for its post-debate home stretch, with political parties starting to dig up dirt, sling mud and change course. The Feb. 27 vote is now less than 10 days away, and while there is nary a costed platform to be found, aside from the Greens’, the campaign appears […]

OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland’s Liberal leadership campaign is insisting that fundraising numbers released today don’t give an accurate picture of her haul in the first part of the race. Data released today by Elections Canada shows she raised just over $226,000, putting her behind candidates Karina Gould, Frank Baylis and Mark Carney but ahead of […]

TORONTO — The CEO of Toronto’s Pearson airport authority says two main runways remain closed after a Delta Air Lines plane crashed and flipped on the tarmac Monday afternoon, leaving 21 people injured. Deborah Flint said investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, as well as teams from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Mitsubishi […]

DUNEDIN — The Toronto Blue Jays and slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did not reach an agreement on an extension before his Tuesday deadline on contract negotiations. The 25-year-old first baseman, who’s entering the final year of his current deal, said he does not plan to continue talks now that he has arrived at camp. The […]